• Surrey musician Pat Chessell will play an “Online Kitchen Party” this Friday night, May 1, as part of a series of online performances created to help people staying home to connect with the arts.

• A North Delta teen is helping make life on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic a bit more comfortable for staff at Lower Mainland hospitals.

• Like everyone affected by the COVID-19 crisis, the Surrey Association for Community Living has had to pivot in order to continue to provide care for its clients.

• City of Surrey manager Vincent Lalonde says the COVID-19 Compliance and Enforcement Team has reported “strong compliance” with the provincial medical health officer’s directions related to the pandemic.

• A pet photographer in Vernon says she hopes photos and videos of her Boston terrier are “making people smile, because, right now, there’s so much bad news out there.”

• The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is examining 17 different immune system tests with people who are known to have recovered from COVID-19.

• Delta council approved a revised budget Monday afternoon that aims to save the city, and residents, some cash during the economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The House of Commons will be asked today to give rapid approval to legislation authorizing $9 billion in promised financial assistance for students facing bleak summer job prospects in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Businesses in White Rock shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic, or forced to curtail sidewalk patio activities, got some additional breaks from council at Monday night’s meeting.

• The Canadian Forces Snowbirds are getting ready to take to the skies to pay tribute to those trying to flatten the curve of COVID-19.

• The Surrey Board of Trade is to host a ‘Workforce Digital Town Hall’ with B.C. Labour Minister Harry Bains and deputy Minister of Labour Trevor Hughes at 1 p.m. today. To register, visit zoom.us/webinar

• Statistics Canada reports nearly one-third of Canadian businesses who responded in a newly released survey have seen their revenues plummet by 40 per cent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• While the government spends hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and test potential vaccines for COVID-19, experts say mandatory vaccination is unlikely given the difficult practical and ethical problems that would entail.